5 Chapter 4: Teaching

It was sooner than he expected as Jordus surprisingly found that he was able speak in just one week. Isn't a baby supposed to talk after they are three years old? Maybe his [Heightened Adaptation] got something to do with that but this is even better, since he can now teach the villagers the alphabet.

From his one week of staying with the villagers, he also found out that they don't appear to be eating anything but were still able to function regularly. They do gather food for him when he asks but they never join him in eating them.

He did see a few young adult looking villagers try to eat a purple apple looking fruit but the majority of them don't eat. He knows for a fact that they can eat, but they just choose not to. It was kind of weird at first when they crowded around him and looked at him eating, but he soon got over it.

"Ah-doh-rae-mon, ahem, okay, I think I can start teaching these guys the alphabet." Jordus tests his vocal cords by randomly saying things. This causes everybody in the village to gather around him and give him their undivided attention.

Seeing that he has their attention, Jordus starts drawing the alphabet on the dirt floor with his hands. It took some effort on his part since he had trouble drawing the letters big enough for everyone to see with his small hands, but he managed as it got easier the more he drew.

After he was done after a few minutes, Jordus almost jumped out of his skins since all the villagers were huddled tightly around him and closely observing what he was doing.

He quickly calmed down and just attributed this to just weird people doing weird things.

Sitting down on a piece of soft fur next to him while still naked, Jordus announced, "Okay everyone, I will start teaching you guys the English alphabet today and hopefully you all can finally understand what I'm saying." Seeing the villagers looking at the letters and then up at him, confusion on their faces, Jordus let out a sigh, "Sigh...not that you would understand me...well anyway let's move on to pronouncing these letters."

To his great surprise the villagers picked up on the letters' pronunciation and how to write them in under 10 minutes...furthermore, their faces seemed to inquire him to teach them more.

Teach them he did and once again Jordus was almost shocked out of his mind when the villagers have a partial understanding of basic conversation in under 20 minutes…

These guys were like dried out sponges left in the desert, but suddenly a torrential rainfall of knowledge dropped down on them...and they absorbed it all like hungry black holes...

In another 2 hours, they were all able to speak the "American English" in coherent sentences. Well for basic conversation at most since, Jordus is pretty sure they don't really understand what most of the words mean. Thus comes the hard part, explaining what each word means.

It took the villagers about a few hours to understand what words are used to describe their surroundings.

In great excitement a few young adults gathered random things around their village and said what it is in English.

A young woman with one small horn excitedly grabbed a rock and presented it to Jordus while pointing at it with her other hand, "Look issa rock?!"

The old woman standing next to her with two gently curved horns immediately chimed in saying, "Yes! Issa rock!"

Even the old elders were doing it not to mention the younger ones. Especially the only old man with three horns, he was excitedly pointing at things and screaming out their names in English at the top of his lungs...it was oddly kind of endearing.

Jordus can only wryly smile at this bizarre scene where adults are speaking excitedly about extremely 'common' things to a baby. They were acting more like babies themselves...

However, it is truly shocking how these people can pick up a language so quickly, but Jordus just attributes that trait to them being aliens. His first impression of them being super dumb is changed to that they are just extremely innocent.

Clapping his hands to get their attention, Jordus announced, "Okay everyone, now that you have a basic understanding of what I'm saying let's move on to other stuff."

The villagers quickly stopped their excitement and gathered around Jordus again with clear joy and expectations appearing on their faces. Seeing their faces, Jordus couldn't help but smile at their silly antics.

Their antics caused Jordus to remember of that dumb dog he adopted when he was alive back in his old world...that dog was excitable and endearingly dumb like these people before him.

Anyway, seeing how the water people are learning so fast, Jordus decided to bite the bullet and also teach them mathematics while he was at it.

'What could go wrong?' Jordus thought, as he smiled brightly at a few elders asking him to confirm that what they're holding is indeed a stick.

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Meanwhile at the frog tribe…

With heavy stomps the five frogs that just went and kidnapped three water people finally made their way back to their tribe after a few weeks of walking.

"Hmp, those things don't know what is good for themselves." The leader frog said as he smirked with his ugly visage. "Helping the horde to grow is the only purpose those things are meant to do...hmp."

Beside the leader, a lackey cackles madly, "hah-hahah-hah-kack-hah, yeah…"

The biggest frog in the back that was holding the three water people like bags of rice croaked in agreement, "Mhm, I think that these things should just offer themselves to become our breeding grounds. When they die they make the best water for our eggs after all."

"Yeah, I don't see why they refuse to die, but with these three we can breed a few thousands before we need more of them anyway so it's fine." The leader frog croaked out confidently as the five frogs made their way towards their tribe's village.

As they approached the large wooden gate, a few frogs on high towers spotted them.

"Oh! The hunting team is back!" A patrol frog screamed like an animal that died to alert the rest of the village.

Hearing the commotion a literal horde of abominations swarmed out of the tribes gate to welcome the hunting team.

These frogs seemed much more advanced than the water people as they appear to have a working infrastructure in the forms of walls, housings, and even guard towers. While their infrastructures are quite simple, there are so many that even looking out across the horizon there is no end to them.

Their numbers of tribesmen are mind boggling as there don't appear to be an end to them, looking from above.

Furthermore, they seemed to have proper clothing as the majority of them wore some kind of processed animal hide. The hunting team that made up the five abominations are the only ones that stood out amongst the entire tribe, as they draped themselves haphazardly in all kinds of animal skins as if they were trophies.

"Yah!"

"Hey that's my son!"

"Oh look! They brought more of those things!"

"Yes! My kids will be the strongest with those things water!"

"Hah! No way, my kids will be the strongest as they are destined to be on the hunting team!"

Various frogs created a cacophony of dying animal screams and random croaks that resounded loudly all around. Their fervor screams and celebrations of the hunting team bringing back just three water people is exaggerated beyond belief. It was as if their hunting team just solved world hunger or something.

Their large numbers made the sound even more prominent as various birds fled in distress, but amongst the birds, one particularly curious looking avian also took off with haste.

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At a high mountain top north of the frog village…

After flying a fair distance, the curious looking avian finally landed in front of a gate and quickly entered it with haste.

Behind the gate was a scene that can qualify as the place of immortals as it looked mystical with clouds circling around various mountain peaks that supported a variety of abodes. The breathtaking scene was largely ignored by the avian that looked to be a cross between a hawk and a squid as it quickly flew towards the highest peak.

With a majestic landing in the courtyard of the only house on the highest peak, the squid-bird took a knee and started speaking.

"My lord, the barbarians have obtained more of those water things and are planning to further expand their numbers." His tone was firm and precise, like a trained soldier.

A deep voice responded to the squid-bird from a room within the large courtyard, "Hmm, I see...you've done well Sloot. I will make sure to put in a good word for you at the next generals meeting."

With clear excitement on his face the squid-bird named Sloot loudly responded, "Thank You General Gook! I will continue to monitor the barbarians!" He quickly left the courtyard after saying his piece.

"Tsk, these dam barbarians...I hope that they won't be a big factor in the wars...I can't really leave this up to chances, I must act now." The deep voice strategized out loud within the courtyard. "Dork!"

From an unseen corner of the courtyard, a graceful seagull-jellyfish avian jumped out and kneeled before a room within the courtyard, "Dork is at your service, General Gook."

The deep voice hummed in acknowledgement then announced, "Dork, you have permission to mobilize the army as you see fit, I want the barbarians numbers cull as to avoid any complications in our wars."

"It shall be done so sir…" after his response the seagull-jellyfish avian gracefully took off towards the sky in a tornado spin and flew to the biggest mountain peak, housing many weird looking cephalopods looking avian soldiers.